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There's something so human about people making mods for Stray so the cat is looks like someone else's, even taking requests or making one when someone asks if there's one that looks like their cat. And personally I feel like that's part of the story Stray wants to tell. Human kindness is such a beautiful thing and this game really shows it off. Both in and outside of the game ❤️
Zbaltazar stans rise up
♡
long ago
the soft ones laid these stones for us
and saudered all of our wires
all in pursuit of a humble convenience
a creature that never tires
now the concrete walls that keep us trapped
have become our only home
a night sky never ending
and the sunlight never known
what hope is still left for us?
the outsiders dismantled, broken
the clues they left behind
all left unread and unspoken.
but one still rests inside the code
with secrets he knows not he holds
until one fateful day
something comes from up above
a cat.
a little stray.
Translated the alphabet used in STRAY
https://imgur.com/a/edxEpIc
NOTE: Mild Spoilers for STRAY. This album contains the chapter headings, so while it’s not super-spoilery, it’s still going to reveal some details if you haven’t played it to that point yet!
My kid and I have been enjoying Stray thoroughly since it came out, and one of the things we both found fascinating is the language of the society in the game- you see it everywhere, in neon signs, in graffiti, and it really adds to the depth and mystery of this universe.
Both my kid and I are language geeks, me being a narrator and them just enjoying languages in general, so after I casually mentioned that I thought the in-game alphabet for the robots was probably an Aurabesh (Star Wars)-like letter-for-letter replacement of a Latin alphabet, we went to town on trying to figure it out. They mentioned they realized it was a replacement cipher when they saw the opening screen for the “Dead City” chapter.
Turns out that we were… mostly right. But not 100%. There IS an alphabet that’s consistent. It’s in the first image you see in this album. However, while we did find a lot of signs that were simply English, there were some that were Latin, and we think there might be a few in French (which would make sense, given that the developers are French).
But it gets a bit weirder. There’s a bunch of symbols we simply don’t understand because we don’t have a good key for them. We started off with this one by taking screenshots of the chapter headings, which were subtitled in English, using those to get a few characters, then figuring out other characters from context. We’ve got nearly the entire alphabet solved now, but there’s some signs with words using characters that don’t have any correspondence at all to the ones we’ve deciphered.
However, nearly all of these are in the “dead” parts of the city, where there’s signs in English, which could mean these are in Chinese or some language we don’t understand, or maybe they’re intended to be an earlier version of the language the robots in the city now use.
There’s also some “cursive”-like versions of many letters which are more difficult to understand, so some of the signs are much harder to translate. There’s even some where they mash ideograms together to combine them, which is also interesting.
So here’s the alphabet key, along with a few images we’ve provided some captions for. Our working theory is that many of the posters are written in Latin (including some Lorem Ipsum!), then translated to the robot alphabet, but it’s possible they’re in other languages also. Because many of the textures have “damage” on them, it’s frequently difficult to parse all the words, and it’s also often hard to tell where spaces go.
But we figure if we put this out there, others can come along and improve on and add to it!
NB: The alphabet key is not totally complete; the letters X and Z are missing, as we still aren’t certain of those ones. (Updated: Z and X are found, and image key updated!) Also, there’s some variations on some letters, and it’s possible we made some mistakes. But it works for translating many of the signs and posters. For the translations we used Google Translate, which is probably awful, but better than nothing.
NB Also: The chapter headings sometimes differed from the subtitle in yellow. Where it does, the deciphered text is in white. Where it does not, there’s no white text.
If anyone can offer more accurate translations of the Latin passages, please do!
ugh i wish i was a cat listening to some robot play guitar off these music sheets i found across this abandoned post-apocalypse world as it collapses slowly and i'm the only one who can help to save it, but i'm tired and my little robot friend who i helped create knows not to wake me or i will be sad
stray's ending was phenomenal
!! STRAY (2022 CAT GAME) SPOILERS AHEAD !!
just finished stray and the cute little cat game was NOT supposed to make me emotional
i love that they opened the city and freed everyone
and THAT WE GOT TO GO OUTSIDE
AND THE SPARKING WIRES WERE SO COOL SYMBOLIZING THAT B-12 ISN'T DEAD HELLO???? BECAUSE YOU CAN'T ERASE THINGS FROM THE INTERNET COMPLETELY???
sorry chat that's delusional cass speaking
also the eyes in the zurk thing was such a nice touch, chat!!! my friend hated them tho lmaoooooooo
Had to cheer up my kids whom became VERY attached to B-12 and cat cat, so I drew them...and myself in the post apocalyptic world.
LoL, at least she's not crying anymore 😭
mmmomoo on tha roblox spraypaint game..b4 bed time.. havnet drawn this fool in a while
if i post fanfic updates would yall like that. wpuld probably consist of one update everh 6 months. workijg on a docmo fic rn
i maade braceletssssss🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🥳🥳
check this out! stray oc!
i think ive posted this fella before
text says (top to bottom)
"helper bot 1134"
"just experianced its first thought"
"(broom)"
haha heyyy... sorry i was gone for so long
school sketches be upon yee
Finally! I completed game Stray! It's a great story, great art, and… CATS! I saw a trend where artists redraw themselves as robots with their pets (example: artzypaw.tumblr.com), so I decided to try myself too. Art in progress :"D Preview:
absolutely begging the Stray developers to bring it to switch bc i dont have a playstation or a pc and i want to play it SO BAD